Ezekiel 7:2 - Exposition

An end, etc. The iteration of the word once more gives emphasis. The words read like an echo of Amos 8:2 . The four corners (Hebrew, "wings") were probably, as with us, the north, east, south, and west. The phrase had been used before in Isaiah 11:12 , and the thought meets us again, in the form of the "four winds," in Daniel 11:4 ; Zechariah 2:6 ; Matthew 24:31 ; Mark 13:27 . The "end" in this case is either that of the siege of Jerusalem, or that of the existence of Israel as a nation. It was now drawing nigh—was, as we say, within measurable distance.